There are systemic, painful problems of globalization and de-industrialization that cannot be solved with a phone call or a tweet or an angry speech or trying to isolate the press and the first amendment. Sooner or later, the Donald Trump show, which is a projection of strength and authority, will have to deliver to his voters. And if he doesn't, in very real terms, if he can't supersede a situation where a president cut the unemployment rate in half, if he can't do better, if he can't open factories and all the rest that he's promised, then I think he's in trouble.

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

We begin to inhabit oppositional and rarely intersecting mental universes having to do with ideology and fact and non-fact and news and non-news.

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.

We have to do our jobs better, more tirelessly and stop whining about it.

You are losing because of Jewish bankers.

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.